… fossil record, higher-level relationships among sauropods have received little attention. We
provide a phylogenetic framework for more focused work within Sauropoda by analyzing a …

… Such a result suggests that there are dangers inherent in the view that ‘higher’ level sauropod
phylogeny can be accurately reconstructed using only a small number of well-known taxa. …

… a century, yet aspectsof sauropod interrelationships remain unresolved. … level phylogenetic
analysis of Sauropoda in two parts. First,the two most comprehensive analyses of Sauropoda …

… of sauropod dinosaurs are poorly understood. In this paper previous studies of sauropod
phylogeny are … This analysis forms the basis for a reconstruction of sauropod phylogeny. …

… (1929a) produced a very different classification of Sauropoda that employed higher level
groupings. He recognized two principal sauropod subgroups, one with broad, laterally facing …

… to detailed analysis of sauropod diversification patterns. Thus… sauropod lineage diversity
and (2) to evaluate the implications of these diversity patterns for our understanding of sauropod …

… in sauropods and is of taxonomic importance (Wilson, 2002; Wilson, 2012). The high level
of … It is thus common for phylogenetic analyses of sauropod dinosaurs to include characters …

… These suggest a notably higher degree of uncertainty … As recognition of the high levels of
uncertainty in our data (… workers can build on our analysis as new data become available, or so …

… phylogenetic hypotheses using the large dataset and constrained topologies; and (3)
briefly consider the implications of this work for our understanding of the origin of sauropods. …

… test the global phylogeny of Ornithischia, concentrating on the phylogenetic relationships
of … of the Dinosauria, the phylogenetic relationships of basal 'dinosauriformes' and basal …